Answer:
The correct answer is A) A market share of over 50% from the combined companies
Explanation:
The Clayton Act of 1914 regulates acquisitions and mergers in the United States. This is the legal source that the Justice Deparment would use to approve or disapprove the merger described in the question. It explicitly forbids mergers that result in over 50% of market share, because it consideres a higher percentage than that (a market share from 50% to 99%) to configurate a monopoly.
The merger in the question would result in a 70% market share, way higher than the legal limit, hence it would be denied by the DOJ.
$553,950 is the total cost of the production.
Explanation:
In the table attached the various factors are explained
The total production, direct labour, total direct labour hours per unit and the total cost is calculated.
The total production of standard production for 3 months is calculated as (30,000*$15)=$450,000
the total production of deluxe product is calculated as (6,930*$15)=>$103,950
then the sum is found to get the total cost that is $553,950.
Answer:
Option (c) is correct.
Explanation:
There are two types of externality are as follows:
(a) Positive externality
(b) Negative externality
Negative externality occurs when a third person is affected by the engagement of two parties. It means that there is a reduction in the consumption function of the third person from the production of goods by the other parties.
In our case, a firm which produces paper and from this production of paper there is an emission of Dioxin which affect the consumption of nearest persons or firms.
Therefore, a paper producing firm have to consider all the externality while calculating the total cost.
